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Topic: Mozilla Firefox 18 released (Read 2516 times)

NEW Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler NEW Support for Retina Display on OS X 10.7 and up NEW Preliminary support for WebRTC CHANGED Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm CHANGED Performance improvements around tab switching DEVELOPER Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio DEVELOPER Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates HTML5 Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events FIXED Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages (62178) FIXED Improved responsiveness for users on proxies

Known Issues

Unresolved Certain valid WebGL drawing operations are incorrectly rejected, leaving incomplete rendering in affected pages (see 825205) Unresolved If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see 573369) Unresolved For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual (see 579260) Unresolved Windows: The use of Microsoft's System Restore functionality shortly after updating Firefox may prevent future updates (see 730285) Unresolved Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode (see 802274) Unresolved on v18 Resolved in v19 Unresolved Plugins stop rendering when the top half of the plugin is scrolled off the top of the page, in HiDPI mode (see 825734)